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march | hikoi |

As a proper noun march

is the third month of the gregorian calendar, following february and preceding april abbreviation: mar' or ' .

As a noun hikoi is

(new zealand) a protest march, typically involving a long journey.

As a verb hikoi is

(new zealand) to participate in a hikoi.

march

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) mearc'', ''?emearc "mark, boundary".

Noun

(es)
  • A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  • A political rally or parade
  • Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see )
  • Steady forward movement or progression.
    • the march of time
  • (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
    • Synonyms
    * (steady forward movement or progression) process * (political rally) protest, parade, rally * (steady forward movement) advancement, progression
    Derived terms
    * countermarch * dead march * death march * double march * force-march * forced march * freedom march * frog-march, frog march, frog's march * funeral march * gain a march on, get a march on * grand march * hour of march * in a full march * in march * Jacksonian march * Jarvis march * line of march * make a march * march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria * march-on * march-order * march out * march-past * march-time * march tumor, march tumour * march to a different drummer * march to the beat of a different drum * minute of march * on a march * on the march * outmarch * rogue's march * route march, route-march, routemarch * slow march * snowball marches * steal a march * wedding march
    Related terms
    * * volksmarch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  • To cause someone to walk somewhere.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 84 , url = , passage = The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house. }}
  • To go to war; to make military advances.
    • Derived terms
    * dismarch * marcher * marching * march off * march on * march to the beat of a different drum * outmarch * overmarch * remarch

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
  • * , Book V:
    • Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis , and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.
  • (label) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  • The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
  • * 1819 , (Lord Byron), , IV:
    • Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona.
    Synonyms
    * (border region) frontier, marchland * (territory) county palatinate, county palatine
    Derived terms
    * Lord Warden of the Marches * marcher * march-gat * march-land * march-man * march parts, march-party * * march stone * march-ward *
    Related terms
    * * marquee * marquess * marchion * marchionat * marchioness * marquis * marquisate * stanmarch

    Verb

  • To have common borders or frontiers

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) Smallage.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    hikoi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand) A protest march, typically involving a long journey.
  • * 1987 , Ranginui Walker, Jacqueline Amoamo, Nga Tau Tohetohe: Years of Anger , page 88,
    • Although the coalition was fragile, it was a signal achievement for the Tainui contingent and the main body of the hikoi to arrive at Waitangi on the same day.
  • * 1999 , W. R. Atkin, Katrine Evans, Human Rights and the Common Good: Christian Perspectives , page 148,
    • The idea of the hikoi was conceived at the General Synod of the Anglican Church but soon came to involve Christians of all persuasions.
  • * 2005 , Cathie Dunsford, Ao Toa: Earth Warriors , page 84,
    • "There is a proud tradition of hikoi in Aotearoa. We have marched as tangata whenua for our land, for our sovereign rights, for our sacred kai moana, and now we march to honour Papatuanuku and keep her free from GE interference."

    Verb

  • (New Zealand) To participate in a hikoi.
  • * 2004 , Aroha Harris, H?koi: Forty Years of M?ori Protest , page 29,
    • Then in March Ng?ti Kahungunu announced that they would hikoi to Wellington with a view to arriving around the time that the Foreshore and Seabed Bill was due to come before Parliament.